Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WEPAN
WEPAN (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,272 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $115k
- Net assets
- $85k
What Wepan does
Mission
The women in engineering proactive network (Wepan) was founded in 1990 as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. It's mission is to advance cultures of inclusion and diversity in engineering education and professions. Wepan aims to acheive this mission by: empowering people and organizations who are catalysts of change ensuring the success of women in engineering education and professions sustaining a strong network creating research-based evidence driving successful implementation of proven practices developing useful and timely resources
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Access+: stem professional societies and organizational change the Wepan initiative access+ works to increase the number of stem professional societies (pros) engaged in advancing equity in stem. Access+ uses a cohort participation model to support stem pros change agents through the use of the equity environmental scanning tool (eest), engagement in a monthly community of practice (cop), an annual convening, and access to mini-grant funding to develop projects within their organizations. To date, access+ has directly engaged over 160 individuals across nearly 40 organizations representing a range of stem disciplines including biomedical engineering, biophysics, aquatics research, environmental sciences, and pharmacology. The eest or equity environmental scanning tool was iteratively developed to be deployed by individual stem pros to assess engagement in frames or areas critical to organizational adeptness with respect to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The eest generates a report highlighting frames for potential focus to drive organizational change. The eest and its components were developed with a team of experts utilizing relevant scholarship and partnering with…
$135,014 spent9% of program spendingArc network: stem professoriate the arc network supports a constituent community of more than 2,000 changemakers by curating, synthesizing, recovering, disseminating, and removing barriers to and duplication of effort around resources for intersectional gender equity and systemic change in academic stem. Using a three I's framework of intersectionality, intentionality, and inclusivity to guide all of its activities, the arc network empowers the community to share, collaborate around, adapt, and build upon existing resources through a variety of activities including: -community engagement, professional development, and dissemination activities including webinars that showcase key work from the community, town halls on critical emerging issues that impact the community, and newsletters highlighting resources, opportunities, equity issues in the news, and more. -the arc network community library, which features a collection of nearly 10,000 resources on equity in stem as well as guides for applying the resources to practice. -the arc network virtual visiting scholar program, which funds annual cohorts of scholars to conduct and share meta-analysis or meta-synthesis research on…
$1,146,693 spent73% of program spending. Synergiiize: entrepreneurship and innovation formerly known as the Wepan accelerator, synergiiize cultivates thriving stem innovation ecosystems where all stem innovators are holistically and equitably resourced throughout their educational, career, and entrepreneurial pathways. This allows for more inclusive, community- centered, and sustainable solutions to pressing problems facing the world. We enact this vision through an innovator program, a gatebreaker program, an annual summit, and other community and network development activities. A. The synergiiize innovator program is an 8-month professional development program uniquely designed to empower and support undercapitalized innovators on their entrepreneurship and commercialization journeys. B. The synergiiize gatebreaker program works specifically with individuals and organizations that control access to critical resources, connections, knowledge, and funding that innovators need. We empower gatekeepers to wield their power responsibly as accountable agents of change, activating them instead as gatebreakers who dismantle barriers, improve trustworthiness, and build thriving innovation ecosystems. C. The synergiiize summit…
Wepan knowledge center root causes for women's underrepresentation in stem (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields cross disciplines, whether in engineering, physics, computer science, or mathematics. Creating a space to share resources and encourage connections among women in stem advocates is an effective way to increase visibility and broaden the conversation about advancing women across stem disciplines. Wepan recognized the need for a knowledge center to enable researchers and practitioners to quickly and easily locate resources important to their work without reinventing the wheel or relying on outdated data. Many programs shared results with those in their own community by means of conferences, presentations, and articles, but not more widely. Such information, scattered across many different organizations, websites, educational institutions, and individual project sites, was difficult to find. To this end, Wepan has created the women in stem knowledge center (wskc). The wskc is a knowledge repository and showcase for Wepan generated and curated resources focused on women in stem. The wkc was funded by the national science foundation (nsf) (0648210, 1016711)…
$289,330 spent18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,571,037.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $543k to $986k (+82%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 58% · 2018 39% · 2021 53% · 2022 84% · 2023 86% · 2024 76% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of WEPAN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $112 → $50k.
From the IRS filings of WEPAN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
WEPAN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund WEPAN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of WEPAN's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
WEPAN is better cushioned than half of the 210 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WEPAN
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEPAN: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WEPAN?
- WEPAN (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,272 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEPAN have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $115,272 in grants to WEPAN, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEPAN?
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEPAN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing